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Alexander King

@literallyaking.com

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Game Designer, Economy/System Design. Adjunct Professor at NYU Game Center & Parsons DT. Staff Data Analyst for ACT-UAW Local 7902. Spreadsheet aficionado. (He/Him)

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 16h

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 16h

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

Alexander King @literallyaking.com · 1d

Silver (the hedgehog, not the metal) weeps

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Fantômas, Le contrebandier de DEI @theefantomas.bsky.social · 1d

Alexander King @literallyaking.com · 1d

I think the median is actually pretty high, but the problem is that what we experience is the weighted average.

Alexander King @literallyaking.com · 3d

"Magick is the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will."
Aleister Crowley - Magick in Theory and Practice (1929)

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 4d

wizard frog is insane

Alexander King @literallyaking.com · 4d

Personally, I'd say the 4th one, cuz I like the blue rhomboid eye guy as an author stand-in.

But I don't know anything about the algorithmically stifling genre conventions of youtube thumbnails, so take it with a grain of salt

Alexander King @literallyaking.com · 6d

Fantastic piece about the unionization victory of teachers at the Manhattan School of Music. Some really far-ranging takeaways, definitely relevant to other precarious lines of work like games-

brooklynrail.org/2025/10/fiel...

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 7d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Alexander King @literallyaking.com · 7d

Phillipe I think you made a mistake, these are clearly the voices of like half a dozen different guys

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The Cuix (sketch comms open) @thecuix.bsky.social · 8d

Be safe, and don't you dare go hollow.

4 panel comic, une bunny and a witch cat are sitting around the fire, preparing dinner.
Dialogue goes :
"So, you're a Brush bearer, an Artist"
"Are you still painting?"
"I am"
"Hah! No way ! with the world on the verge of collapse and hoe fading day by day, you think art still matters?"
"Now more than ever..."

Alexander King @literallyaking.com · 10d

This picture makes me laugh every single time I read my kid's book about visiting the doctor. She looks like a "without downloading new pictures how are you feeling?" meme that's come to life

A little girl, nonplussed, has the circumference of her head measured. She has a reflective look that suggests a lot of events led to this moment, and she is reconsidering all of them.

Alexander King @literallyaking.com · 11d

That survey uses liberal/conservative as synonymous for democrat/republican, and I think people are increasingly recognizing how that's inaccurate, leftwards and rightwards. But yeah I guess it'll persist until we can get rid of first-past-the-post winner-takes-all elections and get actual parties.

Alexander King @literallyaking.com · 11d

Yeah totally. I do think theres a growing sophistication around this the younger you go. The other day I was surprised to see some politics journalist use the phrase 'those of us on the left', him meaning 'liberal', getting absolutely owned in the replies by people disowning his positions as leftist

Alexander King @literallyaking.com · 11d

Lot of interesting stuff in this survey-
Looking through it, another one that jumped out at me is the "Is there anyone who speaks for people like you?". 60% of all respondents say no. Of Democrats Bernie is the top answer (at 4%), AOC is 3rd, and Mamdani places ahead of basically all elected Dems.

Alexander King @literallyaking.com · 11d

Whoops cropped the question out of the survey data. Here it is with the question-

Alexander King @literallyaking.com · 11d

It'd make sense sense that more educated people would know what "democratic socialist" even is, and makes sense wealthier people would and be opposed to it. Whereas "progressive", absent any explanation, could be getting double enrollment just from being broader and vaguer.

Alexander King @literallyaking.com · 11d

Hmm, although it makes me wonder how much of this is just colored by "progressive" being a much more nebulous designation vs "democratic socialist" being very specific, especially absent a choice for "liberal". Like here is how that question was actually asked:

Alexander King @literallyaking.com · 11d

We could probably make a slack bot to do that automatically if you want

Alexander King @literallyaking.com · 12d

"I have been asked by many people about the life and times of Amelia Earhart" might just be the thing that finally breaks me

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 12d

Trump says he’s ordering the release of all government records on Amelia Earhart.

Trump: I have been asked by many people about the life and times of Amelia Earhart, such an interesting story, and would I consider declassifying and releasing everything about her, in particular, her last, fatal flight! She was an Aviation Pioneer, the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, and achieved many other Aviation "firsts." She disappeared in the South Pacific while trying to become the first woman to fly around the World.
Amelia made it almost three quarters around the World before she suddenly, and without notice, vanished, never to be seen again. Her disappearance, almost 90 years ago, has captivated millions. I am ordering my Administration to declassify and release all Government Records related to Amelia Earhart, her final trip, and everything else about her.
Thank you for your attention to this matter!
DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA
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9/26/25, 1:42 PM

Alexander King @literallyaking.com · 12d

Haha wow, just wow! I happened to remember just the other day you had once proposed a whole gedankenspiel class, this feels like that writ large

Alexander King @literallyaking.com · 12d

Reminds me of this amazing piece by Jesse Mason, "The story of Magic art in 89 cards". Later on he also interviewed Sue Ann Harkey too, who was the art director responsible for the early sets (but who was disliked by R&D and eventually replaced)

blog.killgold.fish/2014/07/the-...

the story of magic art in 89 cards

blog.killgold.fish

Alexander King @literallyaking.com · 12d

Suburbia is SO pervasive in media depictions of American life, and childhood/high school life especially. You never to get to see urban life generally, and New York specifically, depicted with these sorts of happy and poppy pastels. It isn't gritty and grey, living here rules!

Alexander King @literallyaking.com · 12d

One the things I'm really loving about Consume Me is how unmistakably it takes place in NYC, in subtle but detailed and grounded ways. Reading on the subway, going on dates at museums, the manhattan mall, doing laundry in the basement. I grew up here too, and I never see the city shown like this.

Jenny is in the elevator with a hamper of laundry. Context clues indicate that the laundry machines are in the basement (people not doing laundry get off on another floor, presumably the lobby).

Jenny goes shopping at "the mall", a towering multi-floored maze of escalators that must surely be the old Manhattan Mall at 33rd and 6th. It closed in 2021.

Jenny and Oliver go on dates at the Egyptian wing of the Met, Coney Island, and on a rowboat from the Loeb boathouse in Central Park

Jenny reading in a subway car, the yellow and orange seats are unmistakably characteristic of the R46 & R68 cars, commonly seen on the B, D, Q and R lines.

Alexander King @literallyaking.com · 12d

100% same here, but I regret it. I admire anyone who's willing to wait in line for four hours because a video they saw said there was good food at the end of it. To be so trusting, and so hopeful? I envy them.

Alexander King @literallyaking.com · 12d

Yeah, and I guess get there's some other social dynamics at play too. Like you wait 4 hours for something, you'll probably savor it more I guess